应用语言学有狭义和广义之分，狭义的应用语言学指跟语言教学密切相关的学科，如二语习得、教学法、语言测试等；广义的应用语言学则指利用语言学的理论解决社会生活的实际问题的边缘学科，如社会语言学、翻译学、词典学、文体学等。本丛书除有些学者的研究集中于狭义的应用语言学概念之外，一般采用广义应用语言学的概念。

书中选用的文章多散见于国外学术期刊、论文集和专著，时间跨度较大，读者不易觅得。这些文章汇集成自选集，充分展示了诸位名家对应用语言学各分支学科的研究脉络，是应用语言学研究领域不可多得的资料，可作为英语教师、英语专业研究生、师范院校英语本科生等从事科研、撰写论文的参考文献。

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Remembrance of Things Past

Part Ⅰ Applied Linguistics

 Models and Fictions

 Knowledge of Language and Ability for Use

 The Description and Prescription of Language

 On the Limitations of Linguistics Applied

 Applied Linguistics, Interdisciplinarity, and Disparate Realities

Part Ⅱ The English Language

 Language Spread in Modes of Use

 The Ownership of English

 EIL, ESL, EFL: Global Issues and Local Interests

 Idiomatic Variation and Change in English: The Idiom Principle and Its Realisations. (With Barbara Seidlhofer)

Part Ⅲ Discourse Analysis

 Approaches to Discourse

 Conceptual and Communicative Functions in Written Discourse

 The Theory and Practice of Critical Discourse Analysis: A Review Article

 Critical Practices: On Representation and the Interpretation of Text

Part Ⅳ Stylistics

 The Untrodden Ways

 On the Interpretation of Poetic Writing

 Representations in Prose: Setting the Scene

 Person to Person: Relationships in the Poetry of Tony Harrison

 The Unrecoverable Context

 Essay on Literature and Language Teaching--An Epistle to Dr Edmondson

Part Ⅴ Language Learning and Teaching

 Aspects of the Relationship Between Culture and Language

 The Relevant Conditions of Language Use and Learning

 The Pedagogic Relevance of Language Awareness

 Setting a Good Example: Dealing with Meaning in Learner Dictionaries

 Approaches to Second Language Teacher Education

 Language Teaching: Defining the Subject

List of Publications